Special Issue "Proximal and Remote Sensing in the MWIR and LWIR Spectral Range"
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 22660
Special Issue Editors

Interests: hyperspectral remote sensing VSWIR-LWIR; sensor data calibration and pre-processing; field spectroscopy; retrieval of surfaces parameters; soil spectral characterization and geology; archaeological site analysis
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Interests: airborne and space imaging spectrometers acquiring data in the VSWIR-LWIR; technical characteristics and requirements for geophysical; geological applications; retrieval algorithms for surface temperature and volcanic gas emissions; space and ground data integration for cultural heritage preservation
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Interests: imaging spectroscopy of soil; spectral libraries; soil proxy; hyperspectral RS of soils rocks and minerals; sensor calibration
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Interests: hyperspectral and thermal remote sensing; retrieval of biochemical and structural vegetation properties; water stress detection; crop nitrogen assessment
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Interests: thermal remote sensing; sensor calibration and validation
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Interests: expert on optical radiometry, in particular thermal infrared spectroscopy, ECOSTRESS Principal Investigator
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
IR (MWIR (Mid-Wave Infrared) 3–5 µm and LWIR (Long-Wave Infrared) 7–12 µm) sensing technologies have reached a significant level of maturity, and have become a powerful method of Earth surface sensing.
Thermal sensing is currently used to characterize Land Surface Temperature (LST), Land Surface Emissivity (LSE), and many other environmental proxy variables, some of which can have a further relevance when assimilated into hydrological and climatological models.
The usefulness of IR sensing has been tested in many environmental applications and also in the spatio-temporal domain for the identification of spatial patterns.
This Special Issue intends to collect the major contributions of the EGU session as well as manuscripts dealing with the actual and future IR imagery, from broadband to multi/hyperspectral (ECOSTRESS, ASTER, Sentinel3, Landsat, etc., and airborne sensors), and the application of proximal or remote sensing data in the following specific research themes:
- IR instruments solution
- Instrument radiometric calibration procedures
- Algorithms retrieval for LST and emissivity
- Soil properties characterization
- Evapotranspiration, plant water stress, and drought
- IR targets identification
- Archaeological prospection
- Urban areas and infrastructure investigation
- Geophysical phenomena characterization
- IR synergy with optical imagery
Dr. Stefano Pignatti
Dr. Fabrizia Buongiorno
Dr. Eyal Bendor
Dr. Martin Schlerf
Dr Angelo Palombo
Dr. Simon J. Hook
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- IR payloads and mission
- LST and LSE algorithms
- IR Earth surface sensing
- Thermal airborne/UAV applications
- IR geophysical parameter retrieval